Ashleigh Brilliant
Ashleigh Brilliant
Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliantis an author and syndicated cartoonist born in London, UK, and living in Santa Barbara, California, USA. He is best known for his Pot-Shots, single-panel illustrations with one-line humorous remarks, which began syndication in the United States of America in 1975. Brilliant achieved American citizenship in 1969...
conflict flowers good talk thinking
What good is it if I talk in flowers while you're thinking in pastry?
flower food thinking
What good is it if you talk in flowers, and they think in pastry?
thinking silence thinker
If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think.
war fighting thinking
In one sense, I have always felt glad to have had the war [World War II] in my childhood, because, as a result, nothing that has happened in the world since then has ever seemed quite so bad. On the other hand, I never entirely got over my feeling of being cheated when the promised era of peace in a wonderful "post-war world" failed to materialize. I could not understand how, after all that, people could ever even think of fighting again. And I still can't.
depressing thinking feels
I'm not always depressed: only when I think and feel.
thinking ive-learned
I've learned so much from my failures that I'm thinking of having some more.
bring common good hard ideas people uncommon work
Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who'll work hard enough to bring them about
chance either less
I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
absolutely lie lies-and-lying please sure unless
Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.
audience complete opinions
My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.
fact opinions
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
choose willingly work
Fortunately in my work there's always a choice: I can choose to do it willingly or unwillingly
call hitting opinions shoot sure whatever
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target.
names firsts trouble
Some of my troubles are so familiar, I know them by their first names.